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Spiritual Aphorisms about Children’s Art

Sofia Cavalletti viewed children’s drawings as a window into the core of their beings and therefore recognized that they represent much more than literal...

Development of Creative Drama

Another spontaneous form of expression is interpretive drama, where the child shows his self-expression through acting out meaning, history, readings, and...

Drama as Education

The writing of Dorothy Heathcote, a creative drama teacher, comes very close to Montessori’s ideas about interpretive reading.

Creative Development in the Child Vol. 1: Chapter 30

Montessori designed the colour tablets, not with paint and varnish, but with silk thread wound on a tablet with handles on each end. Yet in her essay on colour...

Colour Boxes I & II (Or Why is Red, Red)

Annette Haines provides a historical and cross-cultural survey of research showing that people representing twenty different languages share the same...

I Ludi Geometrici

Also coming from Dr. Scoppola inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings in the Codex Atlanticus, Daniele Pasquazi article describes a learning activity for...

Montessori Mathematics: A Neuroscientific Perspective

Benedetto Scoppola demonstrates interdisciplinary skills can enrich easily and document that “Maria Montessori really knew” the recent discoveries of...

Intuitive and Analytic Thinking

Bruner assumes a reconciliatory position between structure and creativity, suggesting that ordered sequences can lead to discovery

Flow and Creativity

Csikszentmihaly observed intense engagement (flow) in artists, leading to their creative success and argues that flow is a basic ingredient of the artistic...

Montessori Education and Creativity

Lillard explores Montessori on its own terms using a variety of research to define creativity qualitatively and quantitatively.